Ukrainian prime minister, Arseny Yatsenyuk, says intelligence indicates Russia is continuing to send military personnel and equipment across the border. Yatsenyuk says the type of arms the pro-Russian rebels possess, including Buk missiles and tanks, are not available to buy on the open market and only the Russian Defence Ministry possess them....

Pro-Russian separatists have renewed attacks on Ukrainian forces at an airport complex in the east, after Kiev launched a mass operation to reclaim lost ground there that Russia called a “strategic mistake”. …read more Source: RTÉ...

The fighting and dying in Ukraine goes on but diplomacy is at a standstill. Sanctions must remain until Putin chooses peaceDonetsk airport, its runways cratered by shelling, its buildings battered and its control tower decapitated, is a modern ruin that has long ceased to function. To lose lives over it seems senseless. Yet such is its symbolism...

Although Bulgarian exporters are seriously injured by the sanctions on Russia, the country will not back away from its current stance and will seek new markets, according to Economy Minister Bozhidar Lukarski. Bulgaria’s Economy Minister met Monday with Ukraine’s Ambassador to Bulgaria Mykola Baltazhy. Lukarski pointed out that...

The need for enhanced protection of the EU’s external borders increases Bulgaria’s chances of joining the Schengen Agreement, according to Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov. Speaking after a summit of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Mitov made clear that Bulgaria would most probably seek EU aid to cope with the influx of refugees and...

The Kremlin denies sending troops into the conflict in east Ukraine, but Russian relatives of those who have served and died across the border tell a different story A growing body of information about Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine has started to reveal a damning picture of Moscow’s intervention in the separatist conflict there,...

A series of joint vents will be timed to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. “We will not leave behind the Ukrainian agenda, the global economic crisis and other global and national challenges. We are ready to collaborate with all constructive public forces in Belarus,” Pavel Krasnorutsky said. …read more Source:...

Like sand through the hourglass, so the items up for discussion at the European Union foreign ministers’ meeting on Monday (19 January) eventually flowed through to the pressing problem of what TV content the EU could provide to counter Russian “active propaganda campaign”. The consensus: keep it entertaining. According to those attending...